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Re: [tuning] Re: Pierre Lamothe, Bruce Hemmingway?

🔗D.Stearns <STEARNS@CAPECOD.NET>

6/21/2000 7:27:15 PM

John Chalmers wrote,

> I think I met the same composer at an ICMC in 1981. As I recall he
said he turned to electronics after a distrous experience with a
oboist for whom he had written a piece. It seems that during a
rehearsal, the oboist suddenly put down his/her instrument and said
that his music made him sick. Then the performer ran out of the room
and threw up.

Yeah! Now that's what I call keeping (well, at least getting)
someone's attention!

Dan